Some New Art
Nov. 6th, 2009 12:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
galatheaSo, a challenge over at Buffyforums motivated me to try my hands at one of my more conceptual wallpaper ideas and the last couple of days I worked on it like crazy. *g* I really need to catch up on some episodic art for the latest episodes though, there's a couple of scenes that I'd like to pin on canvas if possible. So much to do and so little time, life clearly has the wrong priorities. ;)
Haunted: The idea for this wallpaper stems from Sam’s statement to Jesse in I Believe Our Children Are The Future that his wrong choices will haunt him forever, and since this is Supernatural, I took the liberty to interpret the word 'haunt' quite literal. In Lucifer Rising Sam chooses to sacrifice the possessed nurse Cindy McKellan, in order to boost his powers with her blood and defeat Lilith. Granted, Sam is convinced that in doing so he will stop the apocalypse, but he agonises over the decision and in the end he needs to realise that it was all in vain, he sullied his hands with the blood of an innocent and brought on the apocalypse himself. Violent deaths create angry ghosts in Supernatural, so Cindy’s ghost is quite literally haunting Sam in my wallpaper.
I imagine that Sam had to dispose of the body and he would have the decency to at least bury Cindy. So, in the scene I created, Sam just hastily buried Cindy in some field and put together a simple wooden cross for her, when her ghost appears and knocks him to the ground. She is angry, obviously, but I see Cindy as a death omen here, a ghost who wants justice, rather than revenge. She points towards the graveyard behind her, demanding a proper burial. A proper burial stands symbolic for the fact that she wants her death acknowledged, achieve peace for herself and her family and, most importantly, for Sam to openly face what he has done to her. As long as he doesn’t own up to his guilt, both, Cindy and Sam, will not be able to find peace. To emphasise that notion, I used Sam’s quote in the wallpaper.
I think this wallpaper set a new record in terms of time I spent on it. Suitable manip bases for Cindy and Sam were very hard to come by and in the end I put both of them together from various images, I hope it looks natural nonetheless. *g* I am very pleased with how the ghost effect turned out.
Haunted
1024x768 | 1280x800
Best Friends: I made this wallpaper for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ehlwyen's birthday and this is just the untagged version of it. It's a simple, happy collage of the latest photoshoot with Jensen and Jared. Those boys goofing around will never not make me smile. :)
Best Friends
1024x768 | 1280x800
You all know the drill, no posting elsewhere and no pretending it's your own. Just for private desktop use! *g* Resources as usual over at Salt'n Burn!
Haunted: The idea for this wallpaper stems from Sam’s statement to Jesse in I Believe Our Children Are The Future that his wrong choices will haunt him forever, and since this is Supernatural, I took the liberty to interpret the word 'haunt' quite literal. In Lucifer Rising Sam chooses to sacrifice the possessed nurse Cindy McKellan, in order to boost his powers with her blood and defeat Lilith. Granted, Sam is convinced that in doing so he will stop the apocalypse, but he agonises over the decision and in the end he needs to realise that it was all in vain, he sullied his hands with the blood of an innocent and brought on the apocalypse himself. Violent deaths create angry ghosts in Supernatural, so Cindy’s ghost is quite literally haunting Sam in my wallpaper.
I imagine that Sam had to dispose of the body and he would have the decency to at least bury Cindy. So, in the scene I created, Sam just hastily buried Cindy in some field and put together a simple wooden cross for her, when her ghost appears and knocks him to the ground. She is angry, obviously, but I see Cindy as a death omen here, a ghost who wants justice, rather than revenge. She points towards the graveyard behind her, demanding a proper burial. A proper burial stands symbolic for the fact that she wants her death acknowledged, achieve peace for herself and her family and, most importantly, for Sam to openly face what he has done to her. As long as he doesn’t own up to his guilt, both, Cindy and Sam, will not be able to find peace. To emphasise that notion, I used Sam’s quote in the wallpaper.
I think this wallpaper set a new record in terms of time I spent on it. Suitable manip bases for Cindy and Sam were very hard to come by and in the end I put both of them together from various images, I hope it looks natural nonetheless. *g* I am very pleased with how the ghost effect turned out.
Haunted
1024x768 | 1280x800
Best Friends: I made this wallpaper for
ehlwyen's birthday and this is just the untagged version of it. It's a simple, happy collage of the latest photoshoot with Jensen and Jared. Those boys goofing around will never not make me smile. :)Best Friends
1024x768 | 1280x800
You all know the drill, no posting elsewhere and no pretending it's your own. Just for private desktop use! *g* Resources as usual over at Salt'n Burn!
